Meh. I know a lot were worried about who else would be nominated and how much worse they would be if she was rejected. In that sense I understand this decision. Overall it sucks.
Haspel is the first woman to serve as director of the CIA. She is also the first known torturer.
(I didn’t see any debate about her coming from the operations side, rather than the intelligence side of the agency. If we are going to have professional operatives as directors, they should be intelligence people, not operations people–gatherers of information, not (clandestine) operators.)
Jesus H Christ on a crappy, torturous pogo stick.
The only person missing is Curveball.
Another rousing bare majority vote for major administration position. At least Pence didn’t have to step in this time…
“She is, without doubt, the most qualified candidate in history…”
“She has literally dedicated her life to serving this country…”
“We should be thrilled this woman was nominated to be the first female ever in this position…”
“She is simply too qualified to pass up…”
“She has earned this…”
Said Republicans of Hillary Clinton never.
Senate Confirms Gina Haspel As CIA Director After
RockyTortuous Nomination Process
FIFY!
Not surprising though I am a little surprised by Warner’s vote. Sure he’s conservative, but given the very left-ward trend of the VA electorate this past year there’s zero reasons for him to vote for her, particularly when she was going to get the nomination anyhow. If I were a voter I’d be pissed, he’s safe for a couple years but this is going ot hurt him in 2020, despite all the work’s doing on the Trump investigation.
Yeah like the Kabuki dance during the hearing process had any bearing on the outcome…this was a done deal as soon as the nomination took place.I will make a wild guess and say she will show zero integrity while in this role in keeping with the rubber stamp Senators who pretend they are working on America’s behalf.
She is from the “operations side,” which is formally known as the “Directorate of Operations,” which is, in fact, responsible for collection of information. The “Direcorate of Intelligence” (renamed a few years back “Directorate of Anaylsis”) is responsible for analysis.
Which is why we need more and better Democrats.
BTW, Flake voted no
I don’t want to sound like an echo, but if Pelosi’s head is on a theoretical chopping block, then can we make sure that Schumer is right behind her (sim confirmation votes).
Well, I’m happy for her. I know it must have been torturous waiting for the final approval.
I’m sure that voters in those red states will remember their Democratic Senators voted in favor of a GOP nominee, and that bipartisanship will be the factor that sways those voters to support their reelection.
That’s seriously the calculus being done here to justify putting a torturer in charge of our international intelligence agency by six cowardly Dems. Shame on them.
It’s sort of like raining shame upon our country.
A whole lot of this, not all, but a lot, can be undone, but we have to GOTV!
If the enthusiastic voters are the crazy people and angry white folks this is what we’ll get more of.
Torture Lady gonna PARTY UP tonite!!!
Get the Cristal, crank up the Jay-Z, cuz we gonna waterboard and destroy the tapes!
and doesn’t she just look so proud of herself that she got away with it.
The Democrats who voted for her should be so ashamed of themselves, so ashamed.
If this is what has become of the Democratic party, then the hell with the Democrats.
They want bloody bloody Gina and Trump… so much for them